What is Fool 5Y?
Fool 5Y is a blended, forward-looking score from The Motley Fool, available to Premium members. It reflects a company's long-term potential over a five-year horizon in a single number from 1 to 99, built using AI-powered research across several established Motley Fool frameworks rather than a simple average of a few numbers. Fool 5Y replaces Quant 5Y (also known as Q5Y) as the five-year score shown across the site. It isn't a renamed version of that older score. It's a new methodology built from different underlying inputs, described below.
How Fool 5Y is built
Fool 5Y combines three Superscores from Moneyball, The Motley Fool's suite of AI-powered stock databases. Each Superscore already blends more than a dozen factors of its own, and each database is run by a different Motley Fool analyst team:
- The AIBall Superscore, owned by Team Llama, The Motley Fool's AI-focused analyst group. It evaluates how prepared a company is for an AI-driven world, weighing factors like public sentiment around a company's AI story, AI governance and regulatory posture, how effectively a company uses agentic AI, the strength of its proprietary data, how resilient its business model is to AI disruption, and its position in the AI supply chain.
- The Hidden Gems Primary Superscore, owned by Team Hidden Gems. This evaluates a company's overall strength across financial performance, product and market position, technology, leadership, and valuation relative to its growth prospects.
- The Rule Breakers Primary Superscore, owned by Team Rule Breakers. This evaluates traits associated with category-defining, high-growth companies: whether a company is a first mover in an emerging industry, management quality, whether traditional valuation may be underselling its long-term growth, price momentum, competitive dominance, and brand strength.
